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Ansible Windows Release Notes

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v1.9.0

Release Summary

  • Release summary for v1.9.0

Minor Changes

  • win_dsc - deduplicated error writing code with a new function. No actual error text was changed.
  • win_powershell - Added $Ansible.Verbosity for scripts to adjust code based on the verbosity Ansible is running as

Bugfixes

  • win_command - Use the 24 hour format for the hours of start and end - ansible-collections#303
  • win_copy - improve dest folder size detection to handle broken and recursive symlinks as well as inaccesible folders - ansible-collections#298
  • win_dsc - Provide better error message when trying to invoke a composite DSC resource
  • win_shell - Use the 24 hour format for the hours of start and end - ansible-collections#303
  • win_updates - Fix return value for updates and filtered_updates to match original stucture - ansible-collections#307
  • win_updates - Fixed issue when attempting to run task.ps1 with a host that has a restrictive execution policy set through GPO
  • win_updates - prevent the host from going to sleep if a low sleep timeout is set - ansible-collections#310

v1.8.0

Minor Changes

  • win_updates - Added the skip_optional module option to skip optional updates

Bugfixes

  • win_copy - Fix remote dest size calculation logic
  • win_dns_client - Fix method used to read IPv6 DNS settings given by DHCP - ansible-collections#283
  • win_file - Fix conflicts with existing LIB environment variable
  • win_find - Fix conflicts with existing LIB environment variable
  • win_stat - Fix conflicts with existing LIB environment variable
  • win_updates - Fix conflicts with existing LIB environment variable
  • win_updates - Ignore named pipes with illegal filenames when checking for the task named pipe during bootstrapping - ansible-collections#291
  • win_updates - Improve error handling when starting background update task
  • win_user - Fix msg return value when setting state: query
  • win_whoami - Fix conflicts with existing LIB environment variable

v1.7.3

Bugfixes

  • win_reboot - Fix local variable referenced before assignment issue - ansible-collections#276
  • win_updates - Bypass execution policy checks when polling or cancelling the update task - ansible-collections#272
  • win_user - Set validate user logic to always check local database

v1.7.2

Bugfixes

  • win_group - fixed description setting for a group that doesn't exist when running in check_mode (ansible-collections#260).

v1.7.1

Bugfixes

  • win_dsc - Fix import errors when running against host that wasn't installed with the en-US locale - ansible-collections#83
  • win_state - Fixed the creationtime, lastaccesstime, and lastwritetime to report the time in UTC. This matches the stat module's behaviour and what many would expect for a epoch based timestamp - ansible-collections#240
  • win_updates - Fixed win_updates output to not cast to an integer to preserve original behaviour and issues with non integer values - ansible-collections#247
  • win_updates - fallback to run as SYSTEM if current user does not have batch logon rights - ansible-collections#253

v1.7.0

Minor Changes

  • win_updates - Added accept_list and reject_list to replace whitelist and blacklist
  • win_updates - Added failure_msg result to the return value of each update that gives a human readable error message if the update failed to download or install
  • win_updates - Added filtered_reasons that list all the reasons why the update has been filtered - ansible-collections#226
  • win_updates - Added progress logs to display on higher verbosities the download and install progress for each host
  • win_updates - Added the downloaded result to the return value of each update to indicate if an update was downloaded or not
  • win_updates - Added the category * that matches all categories
  • win_updates - Improve Windows Update HRESULT error messages
  • win_updates - Improve the details present in the log_path log entries for better monitoring

Deprecated Features

  • win_updates - Deprecated the filtered_reason return value for each filtered up in favour of filtered_reasons. This has been done to show all the reasons why an update was filtered and not just the first reason.
  • win_updates - Deprecated the use_scheduled_task option as it is no longer used.
  • win_updates - Deprecated the whitelist and blacklist options in favour of accept_list and reject_list respectively to conform to the new standards used in Ansible for these types of options.

Bugfixes

  • win_reboot - Handle connection failures when getting the first boot time command
  • win_updates - Always return the failed_updates_count on a standard failure - ansible-collections#13
  • win_updates - Always use a scheduled task which should be less prone to random token errors when trying to connect to Windows Update - ansible-collections#193
  • win_updates - Attempt a reboot once when reboot=True is set and a failure occurred - ansible-collections#22
  • win_updates - Improve the reboot detection behaviour when reboot=True is set - ansible-collections#25
  • win_updates - Improve the reboot mechanism - ansible-collections#143
  • win_updates - Reboot the host when reboot=True if the first search result indicates a reboot is required - ansible-collections#49

v1.6.0

Minor Changes

  • win_reboot - Change the default test_command run after a reboot to wait for more services to start up before the plugin finished. This should better handle waiting until the logon screen appears rather than just when WinRM is first online.

Deprecated Features

  • win_reboot - Unreachable hosts can be ignored with ignore_errors: True, this ability will be removed in a future version. Use ignore_unreachable: True to ignore unreachable hosts instead. - ansible-collections#62

Removed Features (previously deprecated)

  • win_reboot - Removed shutdown_timeout and shutdown_timeout_sec which has not done anything since Ansible 2.5.

Bugfixes

  • win_certificate_store - Make sure store_name: CertificateAuthority refers to the CA store for backwards compatibility - ansible-collections#216
  • win_reboot - Ensure documented return values are always returned even on a failure
  • win_reboot - Handle more connection failures during the reboot phases
  • win_reboot - User defined commands are run wrapped as a PowerShell command so they work on all shells - ansible-collections#36

v1.5.0

Minor Changes

  • win_certificate_store - Added functionality to open the store for a service account using store_type=service store_location=<service name>
  • win_user - Support specifying groups using the SecurityIdentifier - ansible-collections#153

Bugfixes

  • setup - Return correct epoch integer value for the ansible_date_time.epoch_int fact
  • win_template - Fix changed internal API that win_template uses to work with devel again
  • win_user - Compare existing vs desired groups in a case insenstive way - ansible-collections#168

New Modules

  • win_powershell - Run PowerShell scripts

v1.4.0

Minor Changes

  • setup - Added more virtualization types to the virtual facts based on the Linux setup module

Bugfixes

  • win_package - fix msi detection when the msi product is already installed under a different version - ansible-collections#166
  • win_package - treat a missing creates_path when creates_version as though the package was not installed instead of a failure - ansible-collections#169

v1.3.0

Minor Changes

  • setup - add epoch_int option to date_time facts (ansible/ansible#72479).
  • win_environment - add variables dictionary option for setting many env vars at once (ansible-collections#113).
  • win_find - Change hidden: yes to return hidden files and normal files to match the behaviour with find - ansible-collections#130
  • win_service - Allow opening driver services using this module. Not all functionality is available for these types of services - ansible-collections#115

Bugfixes

  • setup - handle PATH environment vars that contain blank entries like C:\Windows;;C:\Program Files - ansible-collections#78 (comment)
  • win_package - Do not fail when trying to set SYSTEM ACE on read only path - ansible-collections#142
  • win_service - Fix edge case bug when running against PowerShell 5.0 - ansible-collections#125
  • win_service - Fix opening services with limited rights - ansible-collections#118
  • win_service - Fix up account name lookup when dealing with netlogon formatted accounts (DOMAIN\account) - ansible-collections#156
  • win_service_info - Provide failure details in warning when failing to open service

v1.2.0

v1.0.1

Bugfixes

  • win_copy - fix bug when copying a single file during a folder copy operation

v1.0.0

Minor Changes

  • win_hostname - Added diff mode support
  • win_hostname - Use new Ansible.Basic.AnsibleModule wrapper
  • win_user - Added check mode support
  • win_user - Added diff mode support
  • win_user - Added the home_directory option
  • win_user - Added the login_script option
  • win_user - Added the profile option
  • win_user - Use new Ansible.Basic.AnsibleModule wrapper for better invocation reporting
  • win_user_right - Improved error messages to show what right and account an operation failed on
  • win_user_right - Refactored to use Ansible.Basic.AnsibleModule for better module invocation reporting

Breaking Changes / Porting Guide

  • win_find - module has been refactored to better match the behaviour of the find module. Here is what has changed:
    • When the directory specified by paths does not exist or is a file, it will no longer fail and will just warn the user
    • Junction points are no longer reported as islnk, use isjunction to properly report these files. This behaviour matches the win_stat module
    • Directories no longer return a size, this matches the stat and find behaviour and has been removed due to the difficulties in correctly reporting the size of a directory
  • win_user - Change idempotency checks for description to be case sensitive
  • win_user - Change idempotency checks for fullname to be case sensitive

Deprecated Features

  • win_domain_controller - the log_path option has been deprecated and will be removed in a later release. This was undocumented and only related to debugging information for module development.
  • win_package - the ensure alias for the state option has been deprecated and will be removed in a later release. Please use state instead of ensure.
  • win_package - the productid alias for the product_id option has been deprecated and will be removed in a later release. Please use product_id instead of productid.
  • win_package - the username and password options has been deprecated and will be removed in a later release. The same functionality can be done by using become: yes and become_flags: logon_type=new_credentials logon_flags=netcredentials_only on the task.

Removed Features (previously deprecated)

  • win_stat - removed the deprecated get_md55 option and md5 return value.

v0.2.0

Release Summary

This is the first proper release of the ansible.windows collection on 2020-07-18. The changelog describes all changes made to the modules and plugins included in this collection since Ansible 2.9.0.

Minor Changes

  • Checks for and resolves a condition where effective nameservers are obfucated, usually by malware. See https://www.welivesecurity.com/2016/06/02/crouching-tiger-hidden-dns/
  • Windows - add deprecation notice in the Windows setup module when running on Server 2008, 2008 R2, and Windows 7
  • setup - Added ansible_architecture2` to match the same format that setup on POSIX hosts return. Unlike ansible_architecture this value is not localized to the host's language settings.
  • setup - Implemented the gather_timeout option to restrict how long each subset can run for
  • setup - Refactor to speed up the time taken to run the module
  • setup.ps1 - parity with linux regarding missing local facts path (ansible/ansible#57974)
  • win_command, win_shell - Add the ability to override the console output encoding with output_encoding_override - ansible/ansible#54896
  • win_dns_client - Added support for setting IPv6 DNS servers - ansible/ansible#55962
  • win_domain_computer - Use new Ansible.Basic wrapper for better invocation reporting
  • win_domain_controller - Added the domain_log_path to control the directory for the new AD log files location - ansible/ansible#59348
  • win_find - Improve performance when scanning heavily nested directories and align behaviour to the find module.
  • win_package - Added proxy support for retrieving packages from a URL - ansible/ansible#43818
  • win_package - Added support for .appx, .msix, .appxbundle, and .msixbundle package - ansible/ansible#50765
  • win_package - Added support for .msp packages - ansible/ansible#22789
  • win_package - Added support for specifying the HTTP method when getting files from a URL - ansible/ansible#35377
  • win_package - Move across to Ansible.Basic for better invocation logging
  • win_package - Read uninstall strings from the QuietUninstallString if present to better support argumentless uninstalls of registry based packages.
  • win_package - Scan packages in the current user's registry hive - ansible/ansible#45950
  • win_regedit - Use new Ansible.Basic wrapper for better invocation reporting
  • win_share - Implement append parameter for access rules (ansible/ansible#59237)
  • windows setup - Added ansible_os_installation_type to denote the type of Windows installation the remote host is.

Breaking Changes / Porting Guide

  • setup - Make sure ansible_date_time.epoch is seconds since EPOCH in UTC to mirror the POSIX facts. The ansible_date_time.epoch_local contains seconds since EPOCH in the local timezone for backwards compatibility
  • setup - Will now add the IPv6 scope on link local addresses for ansible_ip_addresses
  • setup - ansible_processor will now return the index before the other values to match the POSIX fact behaviour
  • win_find - No longer filters by size on directories, this feature had a lot of bugs, slowed down the module, and not a supported scenario with the find module.

Deprecated Features

  • win_domain_computer - Deprecated the undocumented log_path option. This option will be removed in a major release after 2022-07-01.
  • win_regedit - Deprecated using forward slashes as a path separator, use backslashes to avoid ambiguity between a forward slash in the key name or a forward slash as a path separator. This feature will be removed in a major release after 2021-07-01.

Bugfixes

  • Fix detection of DHCP setting so that resetting to DHCP doesn't cause CHANGED status on every run. See ansible/ansible#66450
  • setup - Remove usage of WMI to speed up execution time and work with standard user accounts
  • win_acl - Fixed error when setting rights on directory for which inheritance from parent directory has been disabled.
  • win_dns_client - Only configure network adapters that are IP Enabled - ansible/ansible#58958
  • win_dsc - Always import module that contains DSC resource to ensure the required assemblies are loaded before parsing it - ansible-collections#66
  • win_find - Fix deduped files mistaken for directories (ansible/ansible#58511)
  • win_find - Get-FileStat used [int] instead of [int64] for file size calculations
  • win_package - Handle quoted and unquoted strings in the registry UninstallString value - ansible/ansible#40973
  • win_reboot - add boot_time_command parameter to override the default command used to determine whether or not a system was rebooted (ansible/ansible#58868)
  • win_share - Allow for root letters paths
  • win_uri win_get_url - Fix the behaviour of follow_redirects: safe to actual redirect on GET and HEAD requests - ansible/ansible#65556